Training Sites
University of Colorado Hospital
The University of Colorado Hospital is quaternary referral center on the Anschutz School of Medicine campus and is the hub of a larger health system serving over 6 million patients. It serves as a key source of care for the diverse communities living on the east side of the Denver Metro area while providing specialized referral sources for patients across the region. This includes active programs in solid organ transplant (heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas), stem cell transplants and cellular therapies, advanced orthopedics and limb restoration, cancer research and clinical trials. Within the ID Division, we have a leading Ryan White funded HIV care program, an active clinical trials program supporting innovative research in the area of HIV and other infectious diseases, an active PrEP program, a travel medicine program. In addition to comprehensive HIV primary care and general infectious disease consultations, the Infectious Disease Group Practice provides anal cancer screening and anoscopy, travel medicine consultation, orthopedic ID consultation, transplant ID consultation and viral hepatitis treatment. Infectious Disease physicians play critical leadership roles the School of Medicine and the Department Medicine expanding opportunities for our fellows in the educational programs within the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Denver Health Hospital Authority
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er Health is an academic, integrated healthcare system that includes a 550-bed hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, a large ambulatory care network, and the Public Health Institute at Denver Health. As the primary safety-net system in Colorado, Denver Health provides more than $140 million in uncompensated care annually. ID Fellows will have the ability to care and advocate for Denver’s most vulnerable populations including those experiencing homelessness, substance use disorder, mental health challenges, and significant socioeconomic barriers as well as recent immigrants and refugees. Clinical opportunities at Denver Health include the inpatient ID consult service, weekly ID continuity clinic, and Public Health clinics including the Tuberculosis Clinic and Sexual Health Clinic. For ID fellows who have their weekly continuity clinic at Denver Health, they will work one-on-one with an ID attending physician and gain experience in primary/specialty care for people with HIV, general ID diagnoses, and managing outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT).
Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
The Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System (VA ECHCS) includes a 182-bed medical center and inpatient PTSD treatment unit in Aurora, 17 community-based outpatient clinics along the front range and a Community Living Center (nursing home) in Pueblo, CO. Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMR VAMC) is the tertiary care referral facility providing state of the art care to veterans in eastern Colorado as well as neighboring states. It provides full spectrum inpatient and ambulatory patient care services as well as medical education and research. The RMR VAMC is a major teaching facility affiliated with the medical, pharmacy and nursing schools of the University of Colorado-Anschutz and supports the training of over 700 residents and fellows annually. In addition, approximately 200 medical students and 200 nursing students rotate through the facility for their clinical experiences. The medical center also provides training opportunities for paraprofessional and allied health students and is affiliated with over 100 academic institutions. RMR VA and its nonprofit affiliate, Denver Research Institute, oversaw $29 million in research funding, published 369 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and supported >170 principal investigators and >450 active studies in 2025.
Infectious Disease fellows at the RMR VA see inpatient consults in the medical/surgical units, ICUs, inpatient mental health unit, acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, and inpatient spinal cord injury/disorder unit. Our VA ID consult service provides full-spectrum ID care, including general, orthopedic, and transplant ID. Fellows also have the opportunity to provide teaching to medicine and pharmacy residents and students that rotate on the service. RMR VA is one of three sites for fellows’ weekly ID continuity clinic, which includes visits for HIV primary care, PrEP, travel medicine, and OPAT/hospital follow-up and fellows may choose to participate in mentored scholarly activities (research and quality improvement) at the VA.
National Jewish Health
National Jewish Health is an accredited teaching affiliate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Our physicians and scientists have faculty appointments at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and their medical students and fellows are trained at National Jewish Health. Fellows rotate with our faculty within the Mycobacterial and Respiratory Infections Division and have the unique opportunity of an intensive experience in caring for patients with pulmonary and extrapulmonary mycobacterial infections. This includes not only clinical experiences in applying guideline-based regimens but a wholistic approach to caring for patients with bronchiectasis and the role for surgical management of mycobacterial infections. There are additional opportunities for clinical research as well as rotations with pulmonary faculty for interested fellows.